Waymo LLC
Mountain View, CA, US· latest recorded location
Waymo LLC is named on 2,120 US grants and 1,746 published applications in this corpus. Its most frequent classification is B60W (Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function).
- Granted patents
- 2,120
- Published applications
- 1,746
- Inventors
- 1,059
- Granted in 2026 so far
- 158
- Most recent grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 70 | 20 |
| 2018 | 105 | 85 |
| 2019 | 146 | 125 |
| 2020 | 176 | 194 |
| 2021 | 213 | 271 |
| 2022 | 233 | 288 |
| 2023 | 371 | 263 |
| 2024 | 358 | 203 |
| 2025 | 290 | 195 |
| 2026 | 158 | 102 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Technology areas
Share of 3,866 documents
- B60WConjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function1,630
- G01SRadio direction-finding1,437
- G05DSystems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables1,385
- G06VImage and video recognition935
- G08GTraffic control systems690
- G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings614
- G06FComputing and data processing417
- G06TImage data processing or generation, in general387
- G06NAI and machine learning368
- H04NPictorial communication351
Recent patents
- Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,754,550 B2
- Consideration of risks in active sensing for an autonomous vehicle29 Sep 2026US 12,746,912 B2
- Testing situational awareness of drivers tasked with monitoring a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode29 Sep 2026US 12,746,950 B2
- Quality scoring for pullovers for autonomous vehicles29 Sep 2026US 12,747,955 B2
- Methods for detecting lidar aperture fouling29 Sep 2026US 12,748,199 B2
- Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307681 A1
- Using Wheel Orientation To Determine Future Heading8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307683 A1
- Multi-axis Radar Velocity Image from Stereo Doppler Radar8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309857 A1
- Vision-Based Indicator Signal Detection Using Spatiotemporal Filtering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311495 A1
- World models for processing vehicle sensor data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296454 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and systems for transportation to destinations by a self-driving vehicle196US 9,665,101 B12017
- Methods and systems for calibrating sensors using road map data123US 9,719,801 B12017
- Long range steerable LIDAR system123US 9,880,263 B22018
- Transmitter devices having bridge structures119US 10,310,197 B12019
- Determining pickup and destination locations for autonomous vehicles97US 9,733,096 B22017